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Kearns, Gerard (2014) Governing vitalities and the security state. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 32. pp. 762-778. ISSN 0263-7758
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Abstract
The techniques by which states regulate life are both spatial and geopolitical. Foucault wrote of a broad transition from a state concern with territory focused on regulating threats such as famine and epidemics, to a modern concern with population that prioritised instead a set of everyday dangers that were to be averted by continual action for and upon individuals. In this paper I argue that territoriality is more geopolitical in character and more continually significant than Foucault suggested. This geopolitics implicates a global political economy and forms of imperialism and colonialism occluded by Foucault's state-centric rather than states-centric approach.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | Early-modern England; Plague; Health; Biop;olitics; Geopolitics; Geographies; Medicines; HIV/Aids; Origins; History; |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography |
| Item ID: | 7636 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1068/d13002p |
| Depositing User: | Gerry Kearns |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Nov 2016 14:23 |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Environment and Planning D: Society and Space |
| Publisher: | SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD |
| Refereed: | Yes |
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| Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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